How they play

Aidan pushing Ethan on their new swing set last spring. I love to watch the way they play together. After this episode Aidan concluded that pushing is "hard work" and Ethan needs to practice "pumping his legs". Within days Aidan got the hang of pumping himself. We were all thankful about that.

Tough guys at a marina in Ballard, WA

Candy Land

Remnants of a made up game they played together before school.

The start of somthing wonderful

It looks more like fall then spring outside. There goes my plans to garden the morning away as Aidan and Ethan are at school. I will sit and miss them dearly after delivering fund raising letters for a new project. In May I will be teaching a Little Green Thumb Class to ten 3-5 year old children. This is a double challenge and a dream at the same time. I use to want to be a preschool teacher when I was eight. I fear not being liked by young children. Since I truly believe that kids are the best judge of character, being their friend is amongst my priorities in life. My other fear is running a two hour class environment for such a young age group. Will they look at me with eyes glazed over? Will they be able to keep their hands off the supplies as I speed through instruction? We'll see May 6th.

Last night:
As if there weren't dinner dishes to clear off the counter, or two loads of laundry waiting to be neatly folded and properly dispersed, Kyle allowed me time to text Emmi while admiring new wall art -a Queen Anne Farm's Market add from Seattle '09. Thanks Julia. Something about having inspiration in sight propelled me to dream more delicious ideas for the Little Green Thumb ambassadors. A blog of their own. The Little Green Thumb Project is going paperless. Parent communication will be posted on the blog and through email! This is so my children's generation! The blog will be a wonderful platform to thank our sponsors, The Trumbull Nature and Arts Center where our classes will be held, as well as show case how much we are doing and learning in class. Stay tuned folks.

Bye bye winter

This year we got to enjoy more of the snow.

Mostly because Ethan kept his gloves and we were able to stay outside longer.

Aidan learned new sledding tricks. His new love for winter sports came from watching the winter Olympics with his dad.

What a blast to be on a sled with Grace!

Aidan and Tess are two birds of a feather.

When the outside got to much. We went stir crazy trying to keep busy. We went foil fishing which turned into ice fishing when the rods were taken outside.

Half way through getting dressed for the day I lost interest completing the task because we spent most of the day at home.

Doing stuff like this...

...and ottoman acrobatics.

What else is there to do in the dead of winter. Maybe next year we will find time to build a snowman.

Bye bye winter!

The letter T

I walked in to Aidan's school a couple minutes early to use the restroom.

On the 'today's lesson' board was the letter T.

On our way home from school Aidan says gleefully,

"Mama, guess what letter we learned today?"

And before I could answer he blurts,

".....the letter T. I told my teachers that Thu starts with a T

and

TODAY IS MY MAMA'S BIRTHDAY!"

Check out their vocab words for the week:

Problem

Solution

Eager

Cautious

Habitat

Style statement

(5th Avenue New York)

Lards for life

Lard

(a nick name neither of us will ever out grow)

came for eight days of endless bonding. It's been forever since we've had this kind of time together. It felt like no time has passed. We caught up on the present and reminisced about our childhood together. Lauren and I have known each other since grade school. What made us friends in creative corners of Adam's Elementary play field has kept us friends today - our love for art and everything unique.

Two favorites are better than one.

Lard in a scarf from my trip to India

The Letter R

On the way home from school today I asked:

"Aidan, what did you learn at school today?"

"Um, we studied the letter R."

"Oh. What starts with the letter R?"

With confidence he says

"Bunny, Rainbow, Reindeer and River."

I thought about it for a moment and replied

"Awesome A"

Three out of four is not bad.

I think Bunny was meant to be Rabbit.